This book addresses key questions on biofuels within agrarian
political economy, political sociology and political ecology.
Contributions are based on fresh empirical materials from different
parts of the world. The book starts with four key questions in
agrarian political economy: Who owns what? Who does what? Who gets
what? And what do they do with the surplus wealth? It also
addresses the emergent social and political relations in the
biofuel complex and, given the impacts on natural resources and
sustainability, engages with questions about people-environment
interactions. At the same time, the book is concerned with the
politics of representation, that is, what are the discursive frames
through which biofuels are promoted and/or opposed?
The book analyses the institutional structures, and cultures of
energy consumption on which a biofuels complex depends, and the
alternative political and ecological visions emerging that call the
biofuels complex into question. Across sixteen chapters presenting
material from five regions across the North-South divide and
focusing on fourteen countries including Brazil, Indonesia, India,
USA and Germany, these topics are addressed within the following
themes: global (re)configurations; agro-ecological visions;
conflicts, resistances and diverse outcomes; state, capital and
society relations; mobilising opposition, creating alternatives;
and change and continuity.
This book was published as a special issue of the Journal of
Peasant Studies.
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